Location: Hartford, Connecticut

Should prison be a place of punishment or reform? American society was debating this question when Harriet Martineau, a famous writer from England, visited in 1934. Martineau later wrote about her two year trip to America in a book called “Retrospect of Western Travels”, Volumes 1 and 2, which was published in 1938. In a chapter titled “"Prison", Martineau describes her visit to Auburn...